ROVEX

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    Hi,

    I want to move my insurance off trade insurance to ordinary personal car insurance, I'm running into the problem that I can't find anyone who will accept my 9 years no claims bonus and consequently it is looking pretty pricey!  does anyone have any ideas or know of a broker or insurance company that can help?

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    17 hours ago, CarSalvage said:

    You cannot avoid adding an owner unless you register the vehicle in trade, this then means you cannot tax it especially if you don't have the V5 as you won't have the code to do this, therefore you if you put this in trade you cannot take it on the road unless you have trade plates, you then would need trade insurance to be able to drive using these and check that they cover this (most do but always check)

     

    You used to be able to pay for tax even when the vehicle was registered in trade but they have since stopped this, I spoke to DVLA about this recently and they have said it cannot be done unless you provide the V5 number on either slip or tax reminder to tax the vehicle, once the owner is updated to trade the log book becomes void until the new one is sent out, this is what DVLA told me, unless someone on here knows a cheeky way around this, there is no way to avoid adding owners unfortunately unless you have space and trade plates.

    I'm doing what Oliver is doing. I've only bought one car so far but I taxed it on my phone the day I collected it. Would that not have been valid then, I don't recall seeing any warnings about it not being valid.

    Vehicles have to be taxed to go on the road and a punter test driving would need to be covered so I don't see how you can be right. if that were the case there would be no test drives.

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    1 hour ago, trade vet said:

    Hi Rovex

    I am not sure there will be 90% EV’s in 10 years.If you are right and rapid charge technology arrives, a lot of car pitches might be more valuable as charging stations.

    Good luck and please keep us dinosaurs informed how you are doing.

    It's a guess, and I did say 90% of new sales, not 90% of total on the road stock.  

    1 hour ago, whitestone679231 said:

    Brave man, I wouldn’t know of a trader who I could offer a 3 yr old leaf to, I stock 60 cars from Hyundai i10 to Bentley Continental and I would stain my pants at thought of having a leaf in stock.... but maybe I am an old dinosaur so I wish you well..... but I wouldn’t set off on my jollies in one.... 

    See - its get big or get niche, how many years will it be till I have 60 cars if ever?  Thats why I am specialising. Got to place your bets and see how things fall out...

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    3 hours ago, David Horgan said:

    Hi Rovex , Starting with a Nissan  Leaf , weird choices in my oldstyle pattern of thoughts , Post up from this one that says get 4 Micra's instead , " great advice in my mind " 

    look around when your out and about " see any Leafs running about ?" No, thought not , Slow sellers then would be my first port of thought . 

    But I don't knock the trier in you Rovex so good luck with the venture and I hope it all goes well , least you wont have a petrol bill each month :)

     

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    Thanks for the best wishes!  I've decided to focus on Electric Vehicles - the Leaf is the best seller of all the EVs.

    2 hours ago, NOACROSS said:

    I think he might be on to something specialising in EV’s and Hybrids.  It’s certainly the future, but is the future now or is it still orange?

    I don’t know, I think I’d rather have them than some German diesel auto junk -that’ll be 3k plus when the gearbox poops itself etc..

    Will. E very interested to see how you go on Rovex

    ‘Will be’ even. Oh how I miss my Like and Edit buttons. :o(

    Hi Noacross, it is the future, it's likely that 90%+ of new cars will be electric in 5 to 10 years time and petrol/diesel will be reserved for "edge" applications although of course there will still be millions of them getting traded second hand so there will be lots and lots for the next 20 years or so depending on how long they last.

    So  I am a bit early but I wanted to be ready to catch the wave!

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    So now I have another question, Nissan has mailed me and offered me an extension of the Warranty but I have to take it by the 20th Dec to get these prices

    Clearly they are not too confident the car is going to last 3 more years! 

    • 1 YEAR - £227.00
    • 2 YEAR – £447.00
    • 3 YEAR - £1,057.00

     

    it seems to me that a year or two of Dealer warranty might be a good selling point but it's a lot of money to invest when I have no experience of who the customers are for this kind of vehicle...

     

    What do you think?

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    11 hours ago, trade vet said:

    Thank you,I did think that no EV punter would buy it on 6 bar.It was 75k 2011 which were probably the first ones.But it would have been over £5k including fees .The locals think they are crap,they make them here.This one was very clean and was sold online.

    That doesn't sound too promising!  £5K sounds a bit rich, I think you would have had to stick a new battery in it but I think the old ones have value too so it's not a straight £3K cost.

    2 hours ago, BHM said:

    CRIKES! TV, I think we’re on a different planet up here with our punters. Just imagine trying to sell one of these up north? I’d be smoking it for years.

    .......and imagine telling a punter “Oh yes Sir, the car is £xxxx BUT you also need to pay monthly for the batteries”. I’d expect to be told/asked “Fuck off, you’re joking?” by a typical older-car buyer.

    .......or imagine the calls from London & the suburbs all wanting it delivered f.o.c. (Cos the friggin things would take 4 days to get there with their pisspoor range & the time needed to “refill the tank”).

    .......or on an ‘owner battery’ car the £3000 batteries go ‘tits up’ on a customer and you try one of Arfurs/Lawgistics letters advising the customer that “wear n tear ain’t included in the CRA”. That case wouldn’t go away quickly around these parts!

    I think I’ll stick with piston engines for another few years.

    This made me laugh - I'm picking mine up North of Manchester - expected journey time 6 hours to get back "daan souf"! I'm doing it so I can get first hand experience of long distance EV driving.  

     

  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, trade vet said:

    Hi Rover,I hope you are clued up on Nissan Leaf’s.Never having one,I fancied an 11 plate at Newcastle last week.I read up about battery depletion and the gauges etc.This one had 6 bar,which meant fully charged it would do 45 miles.Recon set of batteries about £3000.It still did over CAP clean,made no sense to me.

    Rovex.

    6 bars really is chronic, even for that age although high mileage early Leafs did suffer. Mainly it would make me think the owner hadn't looked after it at all.

    1 hour ago, NOACROSS said:

    Quite common on the Renaults. Battery can be bought or leased. If leased, you (the customer that is) pays monthly for the battery and they take care of any issues or replacements. 

    If it’s anything like the Prius etc and the Renault Twizzy I had, then that’s no indication of the battery health TV. That just needs charging. 

    I've heard that people don't like to buy cars with battery leases so the re-sale £££ is less. I plan to stay away from them.

    1 hour ago, trade vet said:

    OK thank you.The way I interpreted it 12 blue bars on the gauge meant fully efficient batteries and they deplete at about 1 bar per year.

    The one I am buying is just shy of three years and has all twelve bars - its to do with the mileage and how you charge it. ie you don't just charge to 100% all the time

  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Nick M.K. said:

    Do it at Nissan as the car is under warranty. Any major problems they find will be fixed and the manufacturer will pay. £149 is a small price to pay under those circumstances. 

    I would also advise you to NOT start in used car sales with newish high value electric cars. Buy 4 Micras instead. 

    Its good advice but I've decided to specialise in EVs and while I was going through the faff of getting insurance and whatnot so I could sign up to the the auctions this one sort of fell in my lap.

  12. Posted

    Hi all,

    I'm new to selling used cars and to this forum. I'd appreciate a little advice on something if you can.  The first car I am buying is a Nissan Leaf, just under three years old and I have bumped into something I hadn't thought of - the service is due on it in 20 days - £149+ from the local Nissan dealer. 

    So do I get the service done at my expense or not, what do I have to weigh up or is it a no-brainer. I'd appreciate your thoughts.